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Dec 6, 2015

WIWTW #24

Some News (That I Actually Care About)

You can never go wrong with Bill Murray and Wes Anderson. Makes you wonder how many messages Wes had to leave on Bill's voicemail to finally get him to accept. @IndieWire

Box office report: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 unsurprisingly finished at the top of the heap with $18.6 million, bringing its domestic total to $227.1 million. That's alright, but don't look for it to beat any of its predecessors. Second place went to newcomer Krampus with an impressive $16 million. With a budget of only $15 million, it has already broken even. Meanwhile, Creed rode the wave of positive word-of-mouth to a $15.5 million second weekend and The Good Dinosaur finished with the same amount as well. That's bad news for TGD since Pixar/Disney movies usually have longer shelf lives in theatres than this.

George Lucas has apparently seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens which must have been a pretty surreal experience for him. Did he like it? Well, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy later said "he really liked it." That it? @The Hollywood Reporter

I'm definitely pretty intrigued with James Franco's upcoming The Disaster Artist which is going to be a film about the making-of the extremely terrible/wonderfully terrific cult film The Room. Anyway, Josh Hutcherson just joined the cast. @The Hollywood Reporter

After experiencing the bad taste that was left in my mouth from Oldboy (2013), I'm really hoping that Chi-Raq will redeem Spike Lee. Certainly looks like that could be the case. Anyway, here's an interesting piece on it: @Vulture

Here's the bizarre tale that is the making of sci-fi short film Captain EO which starred Michael Jackson and Anjelica Huston. Oh yeah, it was directed by Francis Ford Coppola too. @Yahoo Movies

What do North Korea and Wes Anderson have in common? Maybe more than you'd think. @Visual News

Video of the week: You know the cool-looking Krampus movie that's out in theatres right now as we speak? Well here's the version that you should avoid like the plague. I'll probably watch it one of these days though...

November 29th

What is it: A 2015 original film, part of Hallmark's countdown to Christmas lineupWhat's good: Gary Chalk makes a good Santa ClausWhat's bad: Lazily shot, bland acting everywhere, cheesy to a fault (particularly the climax)

November 30th

What is it: A Portuguese film that was screened at the 1998 Cannes Film FestivalWhat's good: Interesting theme that gets itself across, cinematography, solid acting from youngstersWhat's bad: The kind of movie that will lose you if you don't pay attention

December 1st

What is it: A Hallmark Christmas film about failed engagements, a bet and a dog shelterWhat's good: There worse worse actors than Arielle Kebbel and Andrew W. WalkerWhat's bad: Sticks heavily to formula, unoriginal story, romance is completely forced

December 2nd

What is it: A Quebec film that is considered one of Canada's best pieces of cinemaWhat's good: Wonderful coming-of-age story, captures an authentic snapshot of late 40's Quebec, nice camerawork What's bad: /

December 3rd

What is it: A Hallmark Christmas TV movie involving royalty, a governess and a petulant princessWhat's good:Danica McKellar makes for a good heroine, pretty rich mise-en-scene for a TV movieWhat's bad: Plays out like a bargain bin romance novel fantasy, couldn't it have a title that doesn't spoil the ending?